Olga da Polga: Paddington Bear author’s much-loved guinea pig comes to the small screen Michael Bond’s 1971 creation – inspired by his daughter’s pet – is starring in a new CBeebies series this autumn
Maggie Haberman on Trump: ‘He’s become a Charles Foster Kane character’ The author of a new book on the former president reflects on his tumultuous tenure, and getting inside his head
Eternal Spring review – animated inquisition into Falun Gong’s Chinese media hijack The story of a TV protest by the Falun Gong movement, and its painful aftermath, is told through the eyes of exiled Chinese comic-book artist Daxiong
Newsroom Confidential review: Margaret Sullivan’s timely tale of the Times and the Post The public editor and media columnist is fascinating and unsparing, particularly about the Times’s Trump-Clinton fiasco
James Brown’s cape and Rudy gone wild: key takeaways from Haberman’s Trump book The former president really doesn’t like Mitch McConnell – and other notable things we’ve learned from Confidence Man
New audiobook platforms are launched to rival Amazon’s Audible Spiracle will feature titles from independent presses, while last month, Spotify also began offering audiobooks to US customers
Matilda the Musical kicks off the London film festival as Netflix banks on Roald Dahl The rights to Dahl’s work has been the streaming service’s most expensive content deal to date, so Matthew Warchus’s new film needs to work its magic
Kushner camping tale one of many bizarre scenes in latest Trump book Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman reveals racism, transphobia and ignorance from ex-president’s time in power
John McVicar obituary Former armed robber dubbed ‘Public Enemy No 1’ by the press whose 1974 memoir was turned into a film
Barbara Ehrenreich obituary American journalist and author of the bestselling Nickel and Dimed, her 2001 memoir of living undercover on the breadline
Fox News anchor Bret Baier wanted Arizona ‘put back’ in Trump’s column, book says News of ‘stunning’ attempt to rescind dramatic election night call contained in The Divider, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Jann Wenner on Rolling Stone: ‘Some reviews were just insufferably nasty’ The founder of the legendary magazine discusses his rise to the top, navigating famous friendships and hiding his sexuality
Loaded founder James Brown on lads’ mags, lairiness and living to tell the tale: ‘We flew so close to the sun our trainers melted’ The magazine he created became synonymous with bad behaviour in the 90s. Is the enfant terrible of British media now a reformed character?
‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’
The Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump Dana Milbank of the Washington Post does not fall victim to false equivalency. He knows the GOP is a threat to democracy